Emperor Tiberius Kazimierz Morawski, is an excellent biography of one of the most enigmatic figures on the Roman throne: Tiberius (42 BC – 37 AD).
A book written with passion. Its author was not only a great historian and classical philologist, but (and perhaps above all) a great writer.
This is how Morawski describes his hero.
"[Tiberus] He was not a great monarch, because he was not a great man. Nature endowed him generously, but life wasted these gifts. Above all, it did not place on his brow the spring kiss of youth, which alone is enough to disperse the clouds, to light up and dispel the darkness in the gloom of later years. There are physical disabilities and there are moral disabilities, and both of them exude bitterness for people and push them into that loneliness over which the Holy Scripture has already cried: "Woe". Tiberius acquired such a disability from his youth; then, amid the blows of fate and life, it grew stronger and stronger, the closed heart gradually hardened, until madness and cruelty were created from bitterness. This personage is not capable of inspiring admiration, but we cannot spare compassion for the one who was once called: tristissimus hominum , and who partly covers up his faults with the majesty of his sadness."
BINDING
A book folded with a typeface Brunel Text Roman No 2 . Hand-made binding, with case. Marbled edges of the block. The binding uses ornaments taken from the Paris editions of the Didot publishing house from the 1790s.
The entire piece was printed on Fabriano Tiepolo cotton paper.
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Edition of 25 copies.
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